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Progressive opposition to fighting Putin in Ukraine undermines progressive goals
If we refuse to help, we aren’t saving funds to create a safety net at home. We’re handing fascists a huge win, writes Noah Berlatsky
Mitch McConnell isn’t a hypocrite
He’s telling us who he is, the perfect nihilist, but we won’t believe him.
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The Supreme Court just turned us all into vigilante voters
The potential for democracy obliterating the rule of law.
Doom is a virus
It saps the will when you need it most, writes Rev. Daniel Schultz.
Supreme Court’s GOP justices open the door to dictatorship
They would allow Trump to run for president until he dies, no matter how many insurrections he incites, writes Claire Bond Potter.
On polls and panicking
Who has the better read on the electorate?
Mitch McConnell doesn’t deserve any compliments
The damage McConnell’s done is incalculable, writes Stephen Robinson.
IVF makes a mockery of anti-choice extremists
Warehouses of frozen embryos put a lie to their central dogma that a fertilized egg is a person, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
